Disclosure context

About beast

The Beast ransomware group is a relatively new threat actor that emerged in July 2025, operating with apparent financial motivations through their ransomware campaigns. With limited public documentation available from major security agencies, the group has demonstrated activity primarily targeting victims across the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, and Argentina, accumulating approximately 65 known victims since their emergence. Their targeting pattern shows a focus on healthcare organizations, manufacturing companies, educational institutions, and construction firms, suggesting an opportunistic approach rather than highly specialized sector expertise. The group's recent emergence means there is insufficient public intelligence from CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other established security researchers regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities. Given the timeline of their first observation in mid-2025, Beast represents an active and emerging threat with their current operational status remaining unclear due to limited threat intelligence reporting from authoritative sources. The group has been linked to 75 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on July 29, 2025; most recent post May 21, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

February 11, 2026Andringa Law listed by beaston the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Not Found sector, which has 4,859 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Andringa Law is reported in United States, a country with 7,392 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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Andringa Law

Claimed by beast · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Feb 11, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: beast
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Not Found
Listed on leak site: Feb 11, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Andringa Law is a small law office based in the United States operated by attorney Bob Andringa, who specializes in commercial and real estate litigation with approximately twenty years of experience. The firm handles foreclosure, partition, contractual disputes, and landlord/tenant matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. The practice appears to be a sole-practitioner or small-team office.

Industry: Legal Services – Commercial & Real Estate Litigation
Employees: 1-10

Attack summary

Severity: high — Law firm data inherently contains privileged attorney-client communications, PII, and potentially sensitive financial and real estate records. The disclosed status is data_published, indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of what is likely regulated and sensitive client data.

The Beast ransomware group claims to have attacked Andringa Law and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), likely involving exfiltration of client and case-related legal files, though the specific scope of encryption or exfiltration is not detailed in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Client legal files
Case documents
Litigation records
Contractual dispute documentation
Foreclosure and partition case files
Landlord/tenant dispute records

What the group claims

Bob Andringa has been involved in commercial and real estate litigation for the past twenty years. Bob is experienced in the foreclosure and partition areas of law for both Plaintiffs and Defendants. In addition, his office is knowledgeable and proficient in litigating contractual and landlord/tenant disputes

The leak post

captured from the group's site

AJU Pharm Co., Ltd. is a prominent South Korean total healthcare company founded in 1953. For over 70 years, it has evolved from a manufacturer of raw materials into a global pharmaceutical group specializing in prescription drugs, medical devices, and health supplements
P U B L I S H E D

Sources

Victim sitewww.andringalaw.com
Leak posthttp://beast6azu4f7fxjakiayhnssybibsgjnmy77a6duufqw5afjzfjhzuqd.onion/card/andringa_law

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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